That does not and has not prevented opportunity for others to use cheap labor overseas to sell the same hats. Now, ask yourself why it's advantageous
for others to manufacture in Asia and.....you'll start understanding the world.

That does not and has not prevented opportunity for others to use cheap labor overseas to sell the same hats. Now, ask yourself why it's advantageous
for others to manufacture in Asia and.....you'll start understanding the world.

His MAGA is trademarked, he has every right to shut down the phonies, he chooses not to do so. I owned a website for several years, and unfortunately
had to learn trademark and copyright law.

I begin to wonder if people understand the 'race to the bottom' tactics that have seen all of factories close and move to China.....

For those who don't;

(All figures are fictitious but represent the very real principle)

In the USA I could say make a hat in my factory and sell it to a hat retailer for $5. The retailer then sells the same hat for say $12.50. Based on
the assumption that it is made entirely from USA made materials, the entire $12.50 goes back into the economy of the USA.

The retailer is happy and the factory is happy. Hats are selling well at about 5000 units per month for the retailer and he is making $7.50 off each
hat he sells.

But....

Along comes another company, offering the retailer the same hat made in China for $3.50. The retailer at first gets excited and buys the hat and
retails them for the same $12.50. His profits soar and he gets excited because he is now making $9 per imported hat instead of $7.50 off the locally
made one. However Approx 3 for each hat is now going directly offshore and not back into the local economy.

A few months in, hat sales start to slow, so the retailer decides to reduce the margin on the imported hat and sell them for $10.50 because after all,
he was only making $7.50 off the locally made hat and now he has two competing lines in the store and sales are declining. Sales for the new imported
hat take off again. He is now selling more imported hats than ever before, but the locally made hats are not selling now because why would anyone pay
$2 more for a hat that looks exactly the same The retailer is happy because he is making the same profit always, but the factory starts to
become alarmed. Orders for hats are starting to drop of rapidly.

The same story repeats itself with retailer after retailer and eventually the owner of the hat factory faces a choice - declare bankruptcy and shut
down the factory, or move manufacturing offshore. By the end of this cycle $15,000 per month is heading offshore if we are selling 5,000 hats per
month.

And that everyone is why so many jobs have gone offshore. Because places like China simply undercut our locally made products even though the quality
of locally made goods is often better. Furthermore it is a double hit to the economy because the money it actually costs to make the items heads
offshore, never to be seen again.

I begin to wonder if people understand the 'race to the bottom' tactics that have seen all of factories close and move to China.....

For those who don't;

(All figures are fictitious but represent the very real principle)

In the USA I could say make a hat in my factory and sell it to a hat retailer for $5. The retailer then sells the same hat for say $12.50. Based on
the assumption that it is made entirely from USA made materials, the entire $12.50 goes back into the economy of the USA.

The retailer is happy and the factory is happy. Hats are selling well at about 5000 units per month for the retailer.

But....

Along comes another company, offering the retailer the same hat made in China for $3.50. The retailer at first gets excited and buys the hat and
retails them for the same $12.50. His profits soar and he gets excited because he is now making $9 per imported hat instead of $7.50 off the locally
made one. However Approx 3 for each hat is now going directly offshore and not back into the local economy.

A few months in, hat sales start to slow, so the retailer decides to reduce the margin on the imported hat and sell them for $10.50 because after all,
he was only making $7.50 off the locally made hat and now he has two competing lines in the store and sales are declining. Sales for the new imported
hat take off again. He is now selling more imported hats than ever before, but the locally made hats are not selling now because why would anyone pay
$2 more for a hat that looks exactly the same

The same story repeats itself with retailer after retailer and eventually the owner of the hat factory faces a choice - declare bankruptcy and shut
down the factory, or move manufacturing offshore. By the end of this cycle $15,000 per month is heading offshore if we are selling 5,000 hats per
month.

And that everyone is why so many jobs have gone offshore. Because places like China simply undercut our locally made products even though the quality
of locally made goods is often better. Furthermore it is a double hit to the economy because the money it actually costs to make the items heads
offshore, never to be seen again.

I understand the economics of it, and you left out that Chinese manufacturers often fail to pay the trademark or copyright royalties. At least in the
major sports in the USA, this can add a large amount to the price of an item.

ETA: Anyone who has a trademark or a copyright is looking to profit from it, from actors, actresses, musicians, sports stars, sports franchises, etc,
etc. The knockoffs are not paying the royalties, and manufacturing offshore, so they are selling the stuff illegally. Here in my local area, they
have arrested the vendors for selling unlicensed goods

I know people who do screen printing on shirts and hats. They buy hats from suppliers and then put their designs on the hats. But at least their
hats are worked on in our local area, supporting our local people. We do not need to eliminate China as a supplier of parts for our stuff, just
increase our production of things in this country.

If we even started producing half of what we need here there would be a lot more people working. These other countries are not our enemies, they are
trade partners. But we need to put our own workers to work in factories too, we need to even the playing field so our own people can work.

Factory jobs are not that bad jobs here in America. Working conditions are not bad in most places nowadays and you can make a living wage most times.
They usually have bennies and you are not all stressed out at the end of the day, nothing a beer or two can't take care of on the way home after
work.

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